Health & Health Equity in the GTA

Wellesley Institute’s mission and vision states “a healthier, more equitable GTA for all.” In the GTA’s rapidly growing population with increasing diversity and income disparity, we need solutions to ensure that everyone in the GTA has the opportunity to enjoy good health. Our health is about more than doctors, drugs and hospitals. It’s about where we work, live, play and age. It can be about our democratic processes, our education, access to child care and more. These social determinants of health are at play in the GTA. Approaching solutions with a health equity lens will ensure we do our absolute best to see that no one is left uncared for.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.